Eamon Doyle (Eamon) Quotes
My lyrical content is adult shit, but it's not. Everybody curses now, and teenagers swear more than anyone. I've got a three-year-old nephew running around the house saying to me, "Fuck you, you ho." It's fucking insane, man.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
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When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
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All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no...
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I was never the girl next door.
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All English people have a fascination with Jack the Ripper. I don't know why, because it's so dreadful, but such a strange, endearing part of our culture. Morbid fascination sums it up.
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Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
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My lyrical content is adult shit, but it's not. Everybody curses now, and teenagers swear more than anyone. I've got a three-year-old nephew running around the house saying to me, "Fuck you, you ho." It's fucking insane, man.
